Its a Fine Balance and We Can
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About This Work
In *Sanna Its a Fine Balance and We Can*, Pietro distils contemporary urgency into a poised, formally assured composition. Working with a layered, process-led technique—building surfaces through calibrated mark-making, tonal veils, and deliberate interruptions—the artist creates a field where tension and harmony coexist. The title reads like a fragment of collective speech, positioning the work within today’s culture of negotiation: between individual agency and shared responsibility, fragility and resolve. Pietro’s nuanced handling of texture and rhythm rewards close looking, as traces of revision and accumulation remain visible, foregrounding making as meaning. Both visually compelling and conceptually resonant, the artwork speaks to a global present shaped by imbalance, adaptation, and the insistence on possibility.
About the Artist
Pietro Sanna is an Italian contemporary artist and ceramicist, born in Sassari, Sardinia, and now based in York, England. Originally trained in painting and collage, his practice shifted in 2014 during a degree in Contemporary 3D Craft at York College, where he began experimenting with ceramics as ...
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